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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1903)
July 5, 1903. THE IL.LTJSTKATED 1VEE. 15 Hio De Janeiro (Continued from rage Thirteen.) tlvely to summer and winter, but the rain fall la distributed through every month of tlio yeaer. more falling during the sum mer months than during the winter. Tho rainfall varies considerably from year to your, but the average Is about fifty inches a year. If a due regard had boon paid, In luylng out the city, to the prevailing wind, that Is, If one-half of the streets had loen built in the direction of the prevailing winds of the hot season, at least the residence por tion of the city could have enjoyed com parative comfort all the year around. It lias been frequently observed that there are certain spots In Rio and certain streets which happen to conform to the plan men tioned where there Is always a breeze, und bo are the coolest points in the city at all seasons. Unfortunately these spots ure not In any of the present re.-ildence districts, which latter occupy, strange to say, neither the healthiest nor the coolest parts of the city. There are several residence districts In Rio. The Cattete, near the beautiful gov ernment palace, the residence of the presi dent; the Botafogo, surrounding the bay of that name at the southern end of the city, where are the most modern residences beautiful Italian villas, and the styles most frequently seen at home, and ull, nearly without exception, surrounded by luxurious gardens. The residence streets of Rio pre sent a very fine appearance, with their long rows of magnificent royal palms and the beautiful private grounds on each side. As In Europe, everybody surrounds his prop erty with high fences either of ornamental iron or stone. The houses are substantially built of stone or brick and then Invariably whitewashed or painted with some bright color. Visitors are usually surprised at the largo number of beautiful homes to bo found In Rio. San Chrlstovao, at the other end of the city, and Larangelras, situated at the foot of Corcovado mountain, from which one of the finest vlows In the world may be obtained, completes the list of the residence districts. In Ivarangefras is the Ixiran geiras club, which maintains some good tennis courts where energetic Englishmen play tennis all the year round. The business part of the city Is crowded about the landing quays on a kind of short peninsula, so that the district Is sur rounded on three sides by water. In this region are several good-sized Bquares, some laid out as parks, others mere breathing spaces for the congested narrow streets. There are several good statues In these squares. Along the streets In this part of town you see everywhere large dr, driven by negroes and bearing sacks upon sacks of coffee to the warehouses, where they. are loaded onto lighters which carry them out to the ships. Here another un loading and loading process has to be gone through with. Every coffee merchant ha a certain com bination of colors which represents h's firm, and these, in the form of little flags, are carried by the coffee drays and lighters for the benefit of the negro laborers in their employ who are unable to read. The prin cipal foreign Importing houses ure located on the Rua (street) Primelro de Marco. On this street are also most of the forlgi con sulates, among these being our consul ito general. A little south of the I'nited State i consulate are the huge custom houte build ings and storetooms. HHuw these is tho postofllce, a fine modern building. Tho largest public market In Rio Is three blocks further down this street. At abut 5 o'clock on a Sunday morning this market place, filled with venders of fruit and vegetables and all sorts of wares of other kinds, sit ting on the ground with their goods spread before them, and the crowds of people com) to buy, is a very animated and picturesque scene. Opening off from the rimelro de Marco Is the Rua de Ouvider. This street Is probably the greatest sight" Rio has to offe It is Rlo's peculiar Institution. The most marked characteristic about it Is its width, which is not more than twenty feet. No vehicles are allowed on it. It Is more of an arcade than a street. Relng so nar row, the four, five and six-story buildings that line its sides, with the awnings and the advertisements hung across, mako It a covered promenade. Here are to be found the principal newspaper offices, book stores, restaurants, confectionery and loo cream Fhops, and here Is the shopping district. From morning to night there is a continual stream of people passing up and down, out to see and be seen. It Is like an open air club. In the ciuiise of a day you can 6ce almost everybody In Rio of prominence In the world of commerce, business, polities and literature. Cafes on this street and In other parts of Jirazil, If nowhere else tn the world, are what their name implies, lirazillans are fond to excess of tho bev erage made from their great staple, and 8 a result coffee Is the one great drink of men, women and children, their Ice cream soda and their beer. The shop win dow displays seen along the Ouvidor would do credit to many European and American cities. Rio contains many fins buildings besides those already mentioned. Around one Urge Bxk near the center of the city, the Pare da Republics, are grouped the mint, the Central railroad station, the main barracks Of the city, the Normal school and the city hall. Nearby is the Palace of ltamaraty, bought at the time of the proclamation of the republlea and now used for the de partment of foreign relations. The former imperial palace of UoaViBta, In Sao Chrlsto vao, now contains the fi le collections of the national museum. This building Is sur rounded by beautiful gardens. The gov ernment palace In the Cattete district was bought by the federal government from the Condo de Sao Clemente. On account of Us marbles, paintings and works of art it had always boon r gard-d as the most mag nificent prlVHte residence In the city. A large park extends from the rear of the palace to the bay. The Church of the Candelurla Is consid ered one of the most beautiful in the western hemisphere. The richness and the splendid proportion of Its Interior are prob ably unsurpi.ssod in South America. It was only completed a few years ago after 123 years of work In carrying out the plans for its reconstiuctlon. The buildings of the department of industry and the re cently constructed building for the supreme federal tribunal are both magnificent, of modern construction, and the latter Is par ticularly fine from an architectural point of view. The charitable and educational Institu tions of Rio are of a high order, tmt too numerous and Important to do them justice in this letter. Rut I cannot refrain from mentioning the most famous and worthiest of them all. the Santa Casa de Miserlcordla, or, In English, Holy House of Mercy. This is a great hospital, which is as well man aged and as modern In its methods and treatment. It Is said, as any of the larger hospitals In the world. It treats annually more than 13.000 patients, nnd the number of American sailors who have there found kind treatment and relief from suffering is legion. xThe institution Is one of tho richest In Rio, as, from Its foundation, away back in 16S2 to the present day, it has been left lands and moneys. In lurge and small amounts, besides receiving regu lar government aid. Everybody in Brazil takes an Interest and feels a pride in tho Holy House of Mercy. It receives for treat ment anybody, rich or poor, black or white, and no Influence is needed to gain en trance. The corporation supports, besidc3 tho hospital, several other charitable insti tutions, among them being a model found ling asylum and an orphan asylum. 1 he national medical school is also affiliated with It. , Rio de Janeiro has long suffered from want of proper dock facilities for handling her very largo foreign commerce. Tho harbor is one of the very finest, if not the finest, in the world, having no bars, prac tically no tide, plenty of deep water and room enough to accommodate the world's merchant marine all at one time. With facilities for unloading and loading mer chant shlps-that is, wharfs that ships of the greatest draft can come alongside of, Rio's importance as a port would be sure to grow fast. This there is no longer any doubt Rio Is at last to have. The govern ment has announced the negotiation of a loan In London amounting to $40,000,000 for this very purpose. It Is undoubtedly tho most Important event in the history of tho city, and promises a great deal of good, not only to the capital of the country, but to the rest of It as well, which always ben efits by the prosperity of the flnanelol cen ter. The works, which are to begin Im mediately, will r.ot be confined to construct ing docks nlono, but will iilso Includo widening certain streets, repaying, sanitary measures nnd embellishing the city gener ally. The completion of the present plans for port Improvements is sure to bring to Rio the commercial supremacy of South American cities. By Fire or Ice (Continued from Tage Three.) truth certain new alterations of this planetary system will become facts changes which, sooner or later, will take the earth-star back to the sun again, or will take away from It the light and beat of that sun. Now what shall we ask? I think that it is in no petty, small spirit that we may ask: Is this, then, to be tho end of that final progress of development? Nay. I.et us ask further: What new, won derful links will be fitted Into the Immortal chain with tho new, vast change of the. planets? That we can put this question is In Itself one of the mt important achievements of philosophy. To seek the answer means to dream to dream ahead for billions of ) ears. If I may dream, I can see two ways In which the human genius cannot only sur vive the threatening future, but can ac tually make It a further instrument in the progress toward perfection. The mind of man may develop Itself so enormously in those billions of years that Hpace and distance shall be immaterial and meaningless to it. The very fact of a de crease In the ear tli's speed or a lessening of the sun's hent might give him the Im pulse that will make him dare to steer out Into the universe. The separate Intelli gences of the various planets may con ceivably co-operate. And In the end man would leave this sinking ship of the planet system. Parting swiftly as light on won drous machines, "man" siceds to distant, happier stars perhaps to that reel double star Alpha In the Constellation of the Cen taur, which Is only 4,000,000,000 of ml'es away from us. There Is another solution somewhat more difficult of apprehension. Suppose this outward picture of humanity were wiped out some day. The earth has rolled into the sun nnd a new gapoous sphere bus boon formed. Hut in Its new development there appear won derful provisions. Matter, after wandering for billions of years through human brains In billions of generations of thinking crea tures, has changed! Is the matter that has wandered through the brain of a Shakespeare or a (Jnethe the same in Its innermost properties as it was? Or Is it something else? The chemist says: "The proportions of weight of atoms of iron und so forth are unchanging." Hut the weight of the atoms In a raw block of marble may be exactly the same as In the Venus of MIIo. Is there no difference? Imagine, then, that through a kind of world-bequest certain things had been made easier for this new gaseous world. Then the chain of evolution would have been saved after all In ascending, exactly ns It has been saved In our animal and vegetable world through simple Inheritance of quali ties and properties. The outward form of humanity could dis appear then In any solar draft furnace us quietly as the body of any single human disappears In the furnace of the creama tory, nnd yet the great evolutionary chain would be saved. Whoever feels in himself the power for progress, for aspiring work, may feel as sured. In him still weaves the mighty loom thut began its woof In Milky Ways nnd Slrius puns and that will lead us far ther, though earths crack and suns sink Into night. Here burns the true world power of our individuality. So long as It does not believe In a final end of the world, so long none can be. WILIIELM BOEUSCH. Reflections of a Bachelor If Cinderella had had to put on rubbers she would have lost her Job. The early worm gets caught as retribu tion for waking up everybody else In the house. A girl who Is being hugged for the first time acts like she was afraid it might never happen again. 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